`Peter Pan` Is Set At Mccormick Place

September 27, 1989

CHICAGO — McCormick Place will cosponsor a production of the play Peter Pan next spring to try to generate income from its underused Arie Crown Theater. The $425,000 price for bringing the show to Chicago, and other costs associated with it, will be shared by the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority, which operates McCormick Place, and the cosponsoring Chicago Tribune Charities. The production will star former Olympic gymnast Cathy Rigby and run from March 6 through March 18. To break even financially, the play will have to fill an average of 1,591 of the theater`s 4,300 seats during the 16 performances, said McCormick Place General Manager Jimmie D. Fore.